Honor Harrington
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I don't see how Haven can even field a fleet anymore after what Honor did to them last time.
Or why they would even bother.
You'd think after the last beatdown the Havenites would go pick on some loser planet. Or maybe clone Honor and give the clone a big monster of a ship and some sort of uber-weapon...
Or why they would even bother.
You'd think after the last beatdown the Havenites would go pick on some loser planet. Or maybe clone Honor and give the clone a big monster of a ship and some sort of uber-weapon...
I don't see how Haven can even field a fleet anymore after what Honor did to them last time.
Or why they would even bother.
You'd think after the last beatdown the Havenites would go pick on some loser planet. Or maybe clone Honor and give the clone a big monster of a ship and some sort of uber-weapon...
I thought the Soviet Union, I mean Haven was smashed. I guess they had to be rejuvanted otherwise the Honorverse would look like technothrillers after The Wall fell. Some reason would be found so that the US would only send one fighter squadron and a Ranger instead of jumping in with mutiple battlegroups, airwings and army corps as is the US way of warfare.
Haven started out as Napoleonic France. Then at some point they became the USSR. Then after that they became....something else entirely, I haven't figured it out yet, but they seem more or less like good guys at the moment, just on a different side. (I'm still on At All Costs.)
I think the Solarian League is going to be the enemy in the future. Maybe Manticore and Haven will have to form an alliance. 
I can just see the Haven Star Navy Kobayashi Maru test....
"Lights"
"Sir, may I speak candidly?"
"Yes, Cadet"
"This was an unfair test of my abilities."
"Why, Cadet?"
"I was in command of a Super-Hyper-Uber-Dreadnaught Mark IV. The simulated Honor Harrington was in a wooden bucket and armed only with a pocketknife."
"And your point is?"
"The pocketknife, sir. There was no way to win."
"You're not supposed to win it. it's a test of incompetency."
"I don't understand sir."
"The possibility that a Havenite officer will totally lose all common sense at the sight
of Admiral Her Majesty Harrington is a situation every officer must face."
"I hadn't thought of it that way, sir."
"Well, now you have something new to not think about. Carry on."
I can just see the Haven Star Navy Kobayashi Maru test....
"Lights"
"Sir, may I speak candidly?"
"Yes, Cadet"
"This was an unfair test of my abilities."
"Why, Cadet?"
"I was in command of a Super-Hyper-Uber-Dreadnaught Mark IV. The simulated Honor Harrington was in a wooden bucket and armed only with a pocketknife."
"And your point is?"
"The pocketknife, sir. There was no way to win."
"You're not supposed to win it. it's a test of incompetency."
"I don't understand sir."
"The possibility that a Havenite officer will totally lose all common sense at the sight
of Admiral Her Majesty Harrington is a situation every officer must face."
"I hadn't thought of it that way, sir."
"Well, now you have something new to not think about. Carry on."
I'm going to do my best not to spoil anything for the ending of At All Costs and the future of Storm From The Shadows, Torch of Freedom, & Mission of Honor.
The tough answer is that they're all core books now. Weber talked it over with Flint and because of something Flint wanted to do, he ended up pushing Weber's Series Timeline forward about 30 years. As a result, All the Books are now being written to flow from one to the other based on situational perspective. For example, some scenes are repeated from At All Costs in both Storm From The Shadows & Torch Of Freedom, but involve different perspectives and revel additional information and motive. Especially concerning the Solarians, Erewhonese, Talboters, & Torches.
(This new core book rule excludes the current anthologies of course... Though everyone should at the very least check out the stories "From The Highlands" & "Fanatic")
Haven isn't the People's Republic of Haven anymore. Once things get straightened out, I don't think they will.
Not being as well versed historically as I would prefer, I can't offer a coloration to Haven as it exists at the end of AAC... but I will say that you and I are on the same wavelength in regards to them being good guys on a different side... Much like the Andermani Empire was a few books ago.
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I hope I haven't given anything away. The larger plot-arc (revealed in SftS & ToF) is going to cause some major upheavals across the broad.
The tough answer is that they're all core books now. Weber talked it over with Flint and because of something Flint wanted to do, he ended up pushing Weber's Series Timeline forward about 30 years. As a result, All the Books are now being written to flow from one to the other based on situational perspective. For example, some scenes are repeated from At All Costs in both Storm From The Shadows & Torch Of Freedom, but involve different perspectives and revel additional information and motive. Especially concerning the Solarians, Erewhonese, Talboters, & Torches.
(This new core book rule excludes the current anthologies of course... Though everyone should at the very least check out the stories "From The Highlands" & "Fanatic")
Haven isn't the People's Republic of Haven anymore. Once things get straightened out, I don't think they will.
Not being as well versed historically as I would prefer, I can't offer a coloration to Haven as it exists at the end of AAC... but I will say that you and I are on the same wavelength in regards to them being good guys on a different side... Much like the Andermani Empire was a few books ago.
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I hope I haven't given anything away. The larger plot-arc (revealed in SftS & ToF) is going to cause some major upheavals across the broad.
Well then, to hell with the whole thing. Unless they print great big numbers on the book to tell what order they're in, I can't expend the energy trying to follow a series that complicated - it's hard enough to keep track of the order of various novel series when the publishers almost never bother to put it on the jacket. I read a lot of other sci fi books, and the Honor books come too far apart for me to ever remember what happened in the last one, and like I said, the later books are too hard to slog thru ONCE much less spend time trying to reread them to catch up. Weber's his own worst enemy.
There is actually 11 parts to that interview and it is something like 2 hours long all told. I very much enjoyed it though.
I enjoyed it too. I'd never seen the man before so It's nice to have a better sense of the man now.
Despite looking forward to the next Honor book, I'm really looking forward to Book 12 of The Dresden Files: Changes in April.
Despite looking forward to the next Honor book, I'm really looking forward to Book 12 of The Dresden Files: Changes in April.
I enjoyed HH for several books, but lost interest in the middle of the one where she gets involved in the vendetta with the professional duelist - I even forget the name of the thing, now. The basic flaws in the storytelling eventually bring the whole series down, although the world Weber creates is in and of itself pretty appealing.
I'm still reading the Meluch Merrimack books and enjoying them.
I'm still reading the Meluch Merrimack books and enjoying them.
The POW arc was great.
And what happened with Harkness.
And Shannon saying "Oops."
Good stuff.
And what happened with Harkness.
And Shannon saying "Oops."
Good stuff.
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